Spacecraft Operations Systems Engineer III Verified today
About the Role
You will specify, architect, and integrate complex system solutions while collaborating with cross-functional teams and subject matter experts to understand project requirements and objectives.
Key responsibilities include:
- Derive, decompose, allocate, trace, and manage system requirements and architectures
- Define and document system concepts of operation
- Create artifacts and deliverables supporting development milestone reviews
- Oversee system integration and verification activities to ensure system functionality and performance
- Identify and manage technical risks and develop mitigation strategies
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives
- Adhere to established engineering processes and standards
- Communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders to ensure project alignment
- May lead small teams to execute systems engineering scope
You will represent the integrated whole during system development, working to connect segments and subsystems through top-down decomposition of requirements and bottom-up validation and verification.
About You
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field (or equivalent work experience in lieu of degree, or Masters plus 3 years experience)
- Typically 5 or more years of related experience (or Masters plus 3 years experience)
- Emerging expertise in Systems Engineering principles and practices, including thorough understanding of the systems development lifecycle
- Knowledge of requirements management, functional requirements parsing, derivation, and allocation
- Knowledge of systems architecture, systems integration, and Verification and Validation (V&V) principles
- Emerging ability to work and communicate with technical and specialty subject matter expert engineers to drive systems engineering products
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in Engineering, Physics, or a related field
- Robust experience with Requirements Management and Model Based Systems Engineering tools and frameworks, such as DOORS, CAMEO EA, Rhapsody, Matlab, and SysML
- Solid understanding of spacecraft systems, including hardware and software subsystems and components
- Solid understanding of project management methodologies including risk management and technical performance tracking
- Solid understanding of technical baseline and configuration management
- Experience in leading projects and mentoring junior engineers
- Experience or certification in INCOSE standards
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Ability to adapt to a fast-paced and dynamic work environment
Compensation
Pay Range: $119,064.00 - $163,713.00
Your actual base compensation will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related knowledge and skills, education, experience, internal equity and market competitiveness.
Benefits
Sierra Space offers a generous benefit package including medical, dental, and vision plans, 401(k) with 150% match up to 6%, life insurance, and 3 weeks paid time off.